qualifications

Svenja Keller joined John Lamb Partnership in October 2008 in her first paraplanning role and just over a year later scooped the Paraplanner of the Year title at the Professional Adviser Awards 2010.

Two campaigning advisers have set out their stalls on the RDR and divided our readers.

The Association of IFAs (AIFA) should be ashamed - not proud - of its part in reducing the minimum adviser qualification level, according to the managing director of Smart Financial Planning.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) says it is prepared to work with Ken Davy's newly-formed Alternative Assessment Project Group, but only once the FSA has firmed up its evaluation criteria for getting to Level 4 standard.

Julie Wycherley of Broadway Financial Planning made the unusual move from agriculture to paraplanning.

Charlotte Moore looks at the qualifications IFAs need to be able to advise on long-term care.

Only two out of 100 people would know what a paraplanner does, Brook-Dobson Brear's Gary Tunstall says. So his business card reads something else...

Aviva has launched an Adviser Academy Fellowship to recognise advisers who have made a significant contribution to raising professional standards.

Veena Patel, paraplanner to Rebecca Taylor at Dunham Financial Services, works from home and rarely meets clients. But could the company function without her?

Cathi Harrison started outsourcing group Para-Sols in 2009. She is based in the North East but has clients right across the country.